“A battered wife and a bloodied hockey stick. That’s the legacy of Trudeau’s Syrian refugee program,” Leitch tweeted Sunday night, along with a link to a column that appeared in the Toronto Sun.

The column, written by Candice Malcolm, tries to make the case for Leitch’s proposed Canadian values test. It focuses on a Syrian refugee living in Fredericton, N.B., who beat his wife with a hockey stick for a half an hour and told a court at the end of May that he didn’t know it was against the law.

“Because he’s a Syrian refugee and because Canada doesn’t deport people to unsafe countries, we’re stuck with this foreign criminal,” Malcolm wrote. “That’s why it’s so important that Canada properly screen and vet refugees before they get to Canada. Kellie Leitch’s Canadian values test would have gone a long way.”

“A battered wife and a bloodied hockey stick. That’s the legacy of Trudeau’s Syrian refugee program,” Malcolm concluded in her column — the line later tweeted by Leitch.

During the long Conservative leadership campaign, Leitch pursued wedge issues and launched broad-spectrum attacks on “elites” who questioned the practicality (and legality) of her pitch to screen newcomers to Canada for their embrace of ‘Canadian values’.

While she’s been quiet on the topic since Andrew Scheer took the leadership of the party, her “values” proposal is still pinned to the top of her Twitter profile — and she evidently liked what she saw in Malcolm’s column.